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DESCRIPTION:Maybe We Can Access the Brain’s Hidden Repertoire Through Music
 ...\n\nBy Randy McIntosh\n\nSimon Fraser University\, Canada\n\nWith High-
 Level Panel of Leaders in Science\, Technology\, On-the-Ground Action\, an
 d Policy\n\nRegister & watch the webinar\n\nMusic is culturally ubiquitous
 \, supporting social and personal functions. Music listening and performin
 g seem to engage several brain networks. The broad engagement opens the po
 ssibility of identifying key personal brain signatures that reflect the ca
 pacity of brain systems to work together. This potential meshes well with 
 the evolving theory of Structured Flow on Manifolds (SFM)\, where the mani
 folds define potentials\, and the flow represents actual expressions of ne
 twork dynamics. My talk will lay the foundation for these ideas and the li
 nk to music listening. When we consider music as having similar SFM proper
 ties as the brain\, a connection may be formed by linking the music flows 
 and brain flows. A panel will follow to discuss how music can serve as pro
 totype for tracing how environmental flows of other types (i.e.\, physical
  and social) interact with brain flows to inform precision convergence sci
 ence and clinical innovations.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nRandy McIntosh’s re
 search program is geared to the development of a unified theory of brain o
 peration that emphasizes the integrative capacity of the brain. One tenet 
 of the theory is that cognitive operations emerge from the interactions be
 tween brain areas rather than being the sole responsibility of single regi
 ons. The program has two related arms: one to do with technical developmen
 ts to explore brain integration\, and the other with the collection of exp
 erimental evidence for this integration. This second arm uses modern brain
  imaging methods to explore the neural networks in human learning. One sur
 prising outcome of this work has been the profound involvement of sensory 
 processing regions of the brain in rather complex cognitive operations. Th
 is suggests that human cognition involves the active interaction among bra
 in regions that processes specific sensory information (e.g.\, visual\, au
 ditory) and the mediating areas\, such as prefrontal cortex and medial tem
 poral lobes. In collaboration with Dr Cheryl Grady\, we are undertaking a 
 series of studies of the aged to explore whether age-related changes in co
 gnition come about through physiological alterations in sensory systems\, 
 the mediating systems\, or in the interaction between them.\n\n\nAbout the
  series\n\nThe Precision Convergence series is launched to catalyze unique
  synergy between\, on the one hand\, novel partnerships across sciences\, 
 sectors and jurisdictions around targeted domains of real-world solutions\
 , and on the other hand\, a next generation convergence of AI with advance
 d research computing and other data and digital architectures such as PSC’
 s Bridges-2\, and supporting data sharing frameworks such as HuBMAP\, info
 rming in a real time as possible the design\, deployment and monitoring of
  solutions for adaptive real-world behaviour and context.\n\nThe Precision
  Convergence Webinar Series is co-hosted by The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Centre for the Conv
 ergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University and The Pitts
 burgh Supercomputing Center\, a joint computational research centre betwee
 n Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Randy McIntosh 
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 nce-webinar-series-randy-mcintosh-347229
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